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New Racist Virus Immune from Shame-vaccine. Old School Suggest New Dosages of Shame.
Lazy Brain Incapable of Coming Up with New Tactics to Overpower New Strain of Racism Other than Tabboos.
How Stigma Sows Seeds of Its Own Defeat
Defending the liberal project is a Sisyphean task in part because successfully inculcating liberal norms leads to habits that weaken the ability to sustain them.In the Western world, the percentage of ( Read more... ) -
The Economist Shocked that Globalized Neoliberalism has Created Global Misery.
Rampant Capitalism Emboldens Global Basket of Deplorables to Hate Each Other.All around the world, nationalists are gaining ground. Why ( Read more... ) -
How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind
I'm going to explain the Donald Trump phenomenon in three movies. And then some text.There's this universal shorthand that epic adventure movies use to tell the good guys from the bad. The good guys are simple folk from the countryside... while the bad guys are decadent assholes who live in the city and wear stupid clothes ( Read more... ) -
What's Wrong with Cancer Alley? Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Anatomy of Trumpism
What's the Matter with Cancer Alley? Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Anatomy of Trumpism
By Sean McCann
AUGUST 22, 2016THIS MIGHT BE the saddest story you’ll read all year. If not, Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land will certainly be among the most timely of books in this moment of seeming near political apocalypse. Hochschild is ( Read more... ) -
Haters Gonna Hate, As Shown On A Map
WARNING: offensive terms, including racial slurs (edited here, but watch out if you go to the source)
Geography professor Monica Stephens has spent a lot of time putting haters on the map. Over at Humboldt State University in California where she is a professor, Stephens and a team of undergraduate students spent a year sorting through racial ( Read more... ) -
Why I’m Not Married
Earlier this month I read an essay that explained to me why I am not married. These reasons included:
- I’m a bitch.
- I’m shallow.
- I’m a slut.
- I’m a liar.
- I’m selfish.
- I don’t think I’m good enough.
I’m not kidding.
Coincidentally, the Pew Research Center released 2010 data showing that just 51% of all American adults were currently married. This ( Read more... ) - I’m a bitch.
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In New York, Mexicans Lag in Education
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What would you do if you saw gay parents berated by a waitress?
They're not hard science but I've liked the 3 videos from this Primetime series, sort of a social Candid Camera. It's fascinating to see how many people are ashamed when asked why they failed to do the right thing (like support a bullied teen). Yet they have no problem proclaiming ugly beliefs in a safe space ( Read more... ) -
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Yes, once again, you CAN judge a book by its cover
As it turns out, humans possess the ability to tell who's a criminal and who's not simply by looking at them because criminals look different from noncriminals.
In this blog, I have repeatedly emphasized the fact that virtually all "stereotypes" are empirically true. If they weren't true, they ( Read more... )
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